The treaties of 1636 has divided the old
Ahmadnagar territory between the Emperor of
Delhi and the Sultan of Bijapur, made Golkonda
a protected tributary State, and clearly marked
out the boundary between the Empire and the
two Deccani monarchies.[1] Barred in the north
by the strong arm of the Mughals, these two
States began to give employment to their troops
and a free vent to their ambition by engaging in
a career of conquest in other directions.The Karnatak
conquered by Bijapur and Golkonda. Bijapur took possession of the Nizam
Shahi Konkan, which had been
ceded to it by the treaty with the
Emperor, and even attacked the
Portuguese possessions north of Goa with some
success. Golkonda was cut off by foreign territory from the west. But it was in the eastern
side of Southern India that both the Sultans
found free scope for expansion. The whole of
the Karnatak, from the river Krishna to Tanjore
beyond the Kaveri, was covered with a number
of petty Hindu principalities, the jarring fragments of the ruined empire of Vijaynagar.
These now rapidly fell a prey to Muslim arms. The Golkonda troops advanced conquering to
the Bay of Bengal, and occupied the country
from the Chilka lake to the Penner river.
- ↑ Chapter III.